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Bukhari :: Book 7 :: Volume 72 :: Hadith 698

Narrated 'Aisha:

Some Muslim men emigrated to Ethiopia whereupon Abu Bakr also
prepared himself for the emigration, but the Prophet said (to him),
"Wait, for I hope that Allah will allow me also to emigrate." Abu
Bakr said, "Let my father and mother be sacrificed for you. Do you
hope that (emigration)?" The Prophet said, 'Yes." So Abu Bakr
waited to accompany the Prophet and fed two she-camels he had on
the leaves of As-Samur tree regularly for four months One day while
we were sitting in our house at midday, someone said to Abu Bakr,
"Here is Allah's Apostle, coming with his head and a part of his
face covered with a cloth-covering at an hour he never used to come
to us." Abu Bakr said, "Let my father and mother be sacrificed for
you, (O Prophet)! An urgent matter must have brought you here at
this hour." The Prophet came and asked the permission to enter, and
he was allowed. The Prophet entered and said to Abu Bakr, "Let
those who are with you, go out." Abu Bakr replied, "(There is no
stranger); they are your family. Let my father be sacrificed for
you, O Allah's Apostle!" The Prophet said, "I have been allowed to
leave (Mecca)." Abu Bakr said, " I shall accompany you, O Allah's
Apostles, Let my father be sacrificed for you!" The Prophet said,
"Yes," Abu Bakr said, 'O Allah's Apostles! Let my father be
sacrificed for you. Take one of these two she-camels of mine" The
Prophet said. I will take it only after paying its price." So we
prepared their baggage and put their journey food In a leather bag.
And Asma' bint Abu Bakr cut a piece of her girdle and tied the
mouth of the leather bag with it. That is why she was called
Dhat-an-Nitaqaln. Then the Prophet and Abu Bakr went to a cave in a
mountain called Thour and remained there for three nights.
'Abdullah bin Abu Bakr. who was a young intelligent man. used to
stay with them at night and leave before dawn so that in the
morning, he would he with the Quraish at Mecca as if he had spent
the night among them. If he heard of any plot contrived by the
Quraish against the Prophet and Abu Bakr, he would understand it
and (return to) inform them of it when it became dark. 'Amir bin
Fuhaira, the freed slave of Abu Bakr used to graze a flock of milch
sheep for them and he used to take those sheep to them when an hour
had passed after the 'Isha prayer. They would sleep soundly till
'Amir bin Fuhaira awakened them when it was still dark. He used to
do that in each of those three nights.